In a recent interview with EW, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off creators Bryan Lee O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski confirmed that Ramona Flowers will get a new job in Netflix’s upcoming anime spin-off of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Instead of delivering Amazon packages, Ramona’s new job will see the fan-favorite character become a DVD courier for Netflix.
“Bryan and I and were writing one day thinking, they’re never going to let us have her deliver packages for Amazon,” Grabinski said. “Then one of us thought of this idea. When we first sent it in [to Netflix] someone said, ‘Well, we don’t know if we can clear that through legal.’ I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? You cannot do this joke that she delivers DVDs for Netflix? Come on, you’re Netflix! Figure it out!’”
What to expect in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off?
“Scott Pilgrim meets the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers, but learns he must defeat her seven evil exes in order to date her. Then things get even more complicated,” reads the logline.
Based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is executive produced and written by O’Malley and Grabinski, who are also set as showrunners. The award-winning animation house Science SARU serves as the animation studio for the anime.
It will feature the return of the live-action cast of 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World movie including Michael Cera as Scott, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona, Kieran Culkin as Wallace Wells, Anna Kendrick as Stacey Pilgrim, Brie Larson as Envy Adams, Aubrey Plaza as Julie Powers, Ellen Wong as Knives Chau, Alison Pill as Kim Pine, Johnny Simmons as Young Neil, and Mark Webber as Stephen Stills. Ramona’s evil exes will once again be portrayed by Satya Bhabha as Matthew Patel, Chris Evans as Lucas Lee, Brandon Routh as Todd Ingram, Jason Schwartzman as Gideon Graves, and Mae Whitman as Roxie.
It is executive produced by Edgar Wright, Eunyoung Choi, Marc Platt, Jared LeBoff, Adam Siegel, Michael Bacall, and Nira Park, with Abel Gongora directing. It will feature original songs by Anamanaguchi (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game), who will score the series with Joseph Trapanese (Straight Outta Compton).